Edge Computing in and around OpenStack

With a lot of driving factors in every segment of the industry edge computing is an emerging technology with a lot of traction in the open source ecosystem. To address the needs on the infrastructure level there is a new initiative under the OpenStack Foundation umbrella called Edge Computing Group to explore use cases, requirements and implement solutions to address missing needs. Along with the new group the Foundation is also incubating a new project in the area of edge called StarlingX.

The presentation will provide details about the Edge Computing Group and StarlingX including the explored use cases, challenges they are working on and information on how to get involved.

Bio: Ildikó started her journey with virtualization during the university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. She started her career at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modelling and optimization. Ildikó got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013. She was a member of the Ceilometer and Aodh core teams, now she drives NFV related feature development activities in projects like Nova and Cinder and leading the Edge Computing related efforts in the community. Beyond code and documentation contributions she is also very passionate about on boarding and training activities, which is one of her focus areas within the OpenStack Foundation.